I’ve been working on my demo site for wanted to add a feed to my blog from MSDN. I knew that Linq to XML can do processing of rss data (it is after all just XML, right?) and that I could create some queries in code to iterate thru the feed. But in the Visual Studio toolbox there are a couple controls...

  I’ve uploaded the code from this quarter’s MSDN events to http://www.benkotips.com/code . If you’re interested here’s the links from this quarter’s session on IE8 … MSDN: Subscribing to content with Web Slices Official IE team blog blogs.msdn.com/ ie   IE developer center msdn.Com / ie IE...

In this week's edition of BenkoTips Live & On Demand we talked about the WPF Toolkit and the Office Ribbon UI. We covered a lot of material and wrote a lot of code. To help out I'm providing a link here to both the webcast and the code so you can try it out. As usual there were a few links of interest...

In today's webcast on LINQ in C# we looked at joining XML data with SQL Server and we got the error " Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementation of query operators except the Contains() operator " when we tried to run it. Looking deeper into what happened, it appears that the...

Thank you to everyone that joined me yesterday in Minneapolis at the Silverlight User Group. The demo code we wrote is up on the site & ready for download...the code from the Linq to Amazon to WPF to Silverlight for both the book finder as well as the flipper is available.